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Make Your Elephant Fly—Plan

When we consider a project, we really study it—not just the surface idea, but everything about it. And when we go into that new project, we believe in it all the way. We have confidence in our ability to do it right. And we work hard to do the best possible job.

Walt Disney

Vision without a means of execution is like a plane without wings or Dumbo without his ears—it just won’t fly. No matter how deep an organization’s resources are, the progress of their projects greatly depends on the strength of execution, and proper execution requires thorough and detailed planning, a reality that Walt Disney understood ...

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